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Thursday, 14 June 2012

my special friend Mandy

Well many times you may have heard me mention Mandy on this blog. She lives in my village. She got me into quilting. She got me into blogging. She got me into Flickr and twitter. You have her to blame. She also runs the wonderful solids and pre-cuts online shop Simply Solids.

When we went to London for the Fat Quarterly retreat, we drove down together, shared a hotel room and she became part of the team running the event, helping move sewing machines, helping teaching in lessons and generally helping us keep a smooth-ish ship running. She kept me calm and sane in a weekend of complete chaos.

We chat at the school gate about new fabric lines, quilts in progress, plans to set up a quilting school and all sorts of other quilting related drivel. My kitchen quilt guild as we call it started with just Mandy and me and then grew to include, Justine, Katy, Brioni, Laura, Karen, Liz, Lucy and Trudi and will no doubt keep on growing. Some months some people come and not others but Mandy's always there. And last week I made her a little birthday gift. I decided it had to be made from my new favorite fabric line, Mama Said Sew, since you have to give your best things to your best friends and I even chose all my favourite prints from that line. And made her a little union jack bag. Happy Birthday Mandy.

What a great gift for a friend. I love how you say, "you have to give your best things to your best friends". That's how my mom raised me, saying for example when we had someone over to visit that we were to give them the best apple/seat/whatever. No wonder you get such "just because" beauty from others (refering to the LOL Perv quilt) when you give such beauty to others!

Really, really, really cute! I don't know what it is about the Union Jack that I love, especially since it looks somewhat similar to the Confederate flag which symbolizes the South before slavery was abolished.